I almost wish TNG the show had been that brave...
Odd TNG uniforms
- Thread starter JoeZhang
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And the ones from TOS weren't?Ro_Laren said:
Those outfits are ridiculous!!
JoeZhang said:
If you have an emergency, you know who to call...
Honestly, we should've had more scenes like this in TNG dealing with who takes care of the civilian population, where do they go and so forth during an emergency situation or Red Alert. One of the things that I really liked about the first mini-series is that it dealt with the civilians and kept the E-D out on the frontier unlike the series.
The mini-series deals with how the series was suppose to be based upon the series bible and it actually make a good stab at explaining why families are on board - plus you have talk about how it's taken then several months to get to their destination - far beyond the federation boarders.
^Yeah, it's too bad that TNG fell into telling for conventional stories because of the writer fallout of season 1. While there were some good stories in TNG, I still felt that had the series been more of how it was conceived by Roddenberry, Gerrold and Fontana then it could've redefined the paradigm of science-fiction television.
Sadly, I think this is problem with all the newer Trek series (NG, DS9, VOY; ENT). None of them seemed--to me anyway--to live up to the potential of the series' premise. Which isn't to say that they didn't have great stories, but that they could have been much better and not so formulaic.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Almost felt like Geordi/Data slash-fiction...
"This isn't going hurt, Data, is it?"
"Geordi...please"
These panels remind me of the old Gold Key comics for TOS, with their bald klingons and various other oddities.
"This isn't going hurt, Data, is it?"
"Geordi...please"
These panels remind me of the old Gold Key comics for TOS, with their bald klingons and various other oddities.
Oh, certainly. While I thought DS9 was the better of ModTrek, there were bits of the original premise that just fell at the wayside and the later seasons turned into an almost pulp science-fiction World War II analogy. VOY certainly abandoned its premise after the pilot and dispatched any dramatic potential in favor of the established Trek formula (I like to refer to VOY as TNG-lite). ENT suffered from not being able to appropriately define itself -- is it a prequel, is it a stand-alone series within the Trek universe, etc -- and lacked an identity for the first two years of its run.
Of all the ModTrek, I thought TNG had great potential for a different kind of drama, and dare I say more sophisticated, then seen in science-fiction television. The conflict between characters, and I think this is what Roddenberry was trying to get at, wouldn't be the soap opera-type but rather steam from differing points-of-view on how to deal with the situation of the week. Also, there was a chance to make Trek as daring and challenging as some of the dramas of the 1980s like Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere.
It's also a shame that TNG didn't cultivate its stories and ideas from contemporary SF as the original series had. Instead it kept within the 60s mold of TOS in its style and storytelling for the most part. I've always wondered how the show might've been had Gerrold stayed (then again, as he said, he wouldn't have written all those books he did when he left TNG).
That unfortunate crewman had his brain removed. In about 15 minutes, someone's going to have to squeeze a lemon over that helmet to keep him going.WillsBabe said:
^Well, I don't remember that! What on Earth is that on his head!
I heard that the TNG miniseries was horrible but I didn't know it was that bad.
This thread reminds me of a particular male crewman in Encounter at Farpoint who wears a dress uniform :-|
JoeZhang said:
If Data got embarrassed, would he wear an outfit like this?
Data sings The Village People! "YMCA," and "San Francisco/Hollywood!" LOL! -- RR
Squiggyfm said:
WillsBabe said:
^Well, I don't remember that! What on Earth is that on his head!
The jock strap of Lt. Erwin Mergency.
Or an Emergency toilet.
Well, you see, they build these giant starships at Ikea and when they have to assemble them Crewman Allen Wrench pokes his head in and turns to tighten the bolts.cardinal biggles said:
That unfortunate crewman had his brain removed. In about 15 minutes, someone's going to have to squeeze a lemon over that helmet to keep him going.WillsBabe said:
^Well, I don't remember that! What on Earth is that on his head!
